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Baba Dunja’s Last Love

Baba Dunja’s Last Love

Author(s): Alina Bronsky

Location(s): Pripyat/Chernobyl

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Contemporary

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Baba Dunja is a Chernobyl returnee. Together with a motley bunch of former neighbours, they set off to create a new life for themselves in the radioactive no-man’s land. Geiger counter and irradiated forest fruits be damned, there in that abandoned patch of Earth they have everything they need. Terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading love poems; Marja takes up with 100-year-old Sidorow; Baba Dunja writes letters to her daughter. Rural bliss reigns, until one day a stranger turns up, and the small settlement faces annihilation once again.

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Chernobyl is situated in the north of Ukraine, near the Belarus and Russian borders. It would doubtless have remained as obscure as it was were it not for the nuclear accident of 1986 – when radiation blighted the neighbourhood...

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Baby Dunja’s Last Love

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I loved traveling to the town of Tschernowo that has been devastated by the radiation from Chernobyl. Baby Dunja is the first to return. Village life is about surviving and getting on. All have health issues to deal with...

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